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by Retric 3221 days ago
These are not competing ideas, they are just lies. I have no problem with the Weekly World News being on a fiction shelf, but we have libel laws for a reason. The truth does not have a sign outside saying 'This is true' and lies repeated often enough get a following.

PS: There is a huge difference between blowing things that actually happened out of proportion to support an argument and saying anything that someone might believe.

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So what is the definition of "fake news"?